Identifier: oxfordguidealden00alde (find matches)
Title: Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Alden, Edward C
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Publisher: Oxford : Alden
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of great interest. Adjoining is the Apodyterium, or robing-room, used also as the Chancellor's Court-room: it contains fine portraits of Lords Eldon and Stowell. Returning through the Divinity School, we enter the fine Quadrangle of 5. The Schools, 1439, rebuilt 1613-18. Although the rooms on the ground floor still retain over their doorways the names of the faculties, they have long ceased to be used for teaching purposes; but the public examination of students was carried on here until 1882, when the opening of the New Examination Schools(14a) enabled the University to devote these rooms to the much-needed enlargement of the Bodleian Library (6). Immediately facing us on our entrance to this court is a picturesque bit of Renaissance, the Schools Tower, late Gothic in general design, but ornamented with columns of the five orders of Roman architecture, grouped in pairs,—Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite,—and a sculptured figure of James I. (See page 10.) 10 Aldens Oxford Guide.
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THE SCHOOLS TOWER. Reproduced (by permission) from Cassells Family Magazine, May, ii The Bodleian Library. 11 The architect of the tower was Thomas Holt, who died in 1624. It has recently undergone thorough and faithful restoration at a cost of over ^6,000. 6. The Bodleian Library (Bibliotheca Bodleiand) is entered by a small doorway in the S.W. corner of this quadrangle. It is open daily (with certain exceptions) from 9 till 5 in summer, closing earlier during the remainder of the year; the fee for admission is 3^. each; and readers may obtain free access to its treasures on satisfactory recommendation. The most ancient portion of this library, over the Divinity School (3), was founded by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, son of Henry IV., and built 1445-80. To this Sir Thomas Bodley added the E. wing in1610, and the W. wing was added some thirty years later. Bodleian contains about half-a-million bound volumes, including28,000 volumes of manuscripts, and other rich literary treasures.(The number

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